Casillas will still be the no 1, reina in spain or not. His form for real madrid dipped since jan, every one knew that, but in no way you are going to drop your team captain before WC on basis of three months, considering he is the best for last 8 years.

Regarding Marchena as CB, seriously?? Marchena and pique as the central backs? Better teams more often than not run thruough it, puyol on RB might do good for 1 or 2 games then he is going to get tired legs which will **** up that position too.. Spains problem with swiss is their attack not their defence, if you think ramos is turd, then better thing is to swap puyol and ramos depending on opposition.

Finally, english fans talking about other intenational team compositions in football is more often than faulty percieved by lack of knowledge. It still boggles my mind how the same people can make great observations in criket.

Why are people thoroughly enjoying Spain's loss? They play attractive football so it's not like the Italy hate.

The world football community confuses me.

They do play attractive football. But it is kind of soft football. The way football is refereed now with the lack of physicality is like opening Windows in Safe Mode.

I think they play football that can be good to watch but they look like a high school springboard diving team. Thats why I enjoyed the Swiss. They were big, strong, well organized and sturdy. Its great to see football can still be played that way.

Spanish footballers or divers?

You are 100% correct though. I cant imagine anyone liking Spain less than Italy.

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Why are people thoroughly enjoying Spain's loss? They play attractive football so it's not like the Italy hate.

The world football community confuses me.

What Matteh said, love seeing the big dogs get knocked down as well, obviously as an England fan you could argue that includes us but I love seeing hyped teams getting beaten. Loved it when Barca lost against Inter FFS.